My first job out of college was leasing up the M Street Apartments over on Marietta. It was essentially Tech housing being so close to campus. Point I'm making is that Tech's first string can hang with the first strings girls in the SEC. They just don't have the depth to keep up all game long.
Ackerman's Pat Chesser detailed what it's planning at Stadium Walk, the firm's first foray into mixed-use since completing Perimeter Town Center last decade, at our Future of Cumberland event last week. Pat says the project will include retail, 300-plus apartment units and two limited-service hotels with a total of nearly 300 rooms. With this project, the Braves stadium and a number of other new office buildings and redevelopments being floated in the area, Pat likened the Cumberland/Galleria area to another hot US city. “Any of you had been to Denver 15 years ago, it used to be just an airport and a staging ground to Vail to go skiing. Today, it's kind of the spot. You almost want to hang out in Denver and then maybe go skiing,” he says. That's where Cumberland could be headed. “I would be very excited for us to morph into something like LoDo Denver.”
dude needs to look on google maps, identify where lodo is in relation to downtown denver...then look at cumberland to downtown atlanta.
for the love of god....... Cumberland to fucking DENVER?! Denver is amazing. Cumberland is a fucking mall.
I now work in LoDo in Denver. ROFL at comparing OTP Cobb County to downtown Denver. You "almost" want to hang out in Denver? What in the fuck. My head
Yeah I mean I'm sure everyone will want to make the trip to Cobb County on their bikes via the interstate and cool off with a cold Bud Light Lime craft beer at Buffalo Wild Wings next to the stadium and then maybe grab some dinner at Cheesecake Factory before checking out Comcast [insert any shitty service provider] Field to watch the Braves likely lose and then bike home up and down the hills dodging traffic on a lovely, muggy Atlanta summer evening. Yep, sounds like downtown Denver.
I feel like I've read about a lot more murders (and conspiracies to commit murder) involving the Cobb Galleria than anywhere else.
I wonder what chopcity does for fun? Probably goes to Alive at the Square while counting down the days until Taste of Marietta.
I went for an early game against Southampton this spring and had a blast. All you can eat breakfast buffet was clutch.
I imagine these preseason friendlies won't be all that packed? I don't know how many people would head out for it. I bet Matchday Uno versus ManU will be crazy though.
welp Denver comparison now TOTALLY makes sense!!! 4. It was once home to a ski resort (of sorts). In the early 20th century, Atlanta’s high society traveled to the area’s springs to escape the city’s heat. For a different form of recreation, in the 1970s, the Vinings Ridge Ski Area provided Atlantans craving winter sports with a 780 foot ski slope (made with Astroturf and plastic pellets), as well as a 3-story lodge with a shop and rooftop restaurant. Spoiler
Correct, in Atlantic Station. I didn't realize that BB&T thing was over there, I might head that way a bit earlier.
for anyone that wears chatch preppy clothing like myself, Onward Reserve at Ponce City Mkt is now open
I guess they will start by taking smiths olde bar away as well. What a shit time for atl music venues.
“Since the MGM announcement around the Georgia Dome, we have gotten two to four requests for meetings, to have a conversation about buying the Turner Field parcel,” Reed said. All were from MGM competitors – domestic and international. Only three days before, news had surfaced that MGM Resorts International, sensing a shift in the state Capitol, is preparing a 2016 push to obtain legislative approval for a $1 billion, Las Vegas-style casino in Atlanta. Sites scouted included the Georgia Dome, Centennial Olympic Park, and the downtown “Gulch.” With his remarks, Reed effectively expanded the search area. In a reluctant sort of way. “I’m not there on gaming at all. I believe Las Vegas is in Las Vegas for a reason,” the mayor said. “I just have real issues setting a facility in Atlanta where working folks get off work and walk into a gaming casino.” And yet to put the kibosh on talks with casino magnates or their representatives would amount to “fiscal malpractice,” he added. “Staggering” numbers were at stake. Many faults have been assigned to the mayor of Atlanta, but equivocation isn’t one of them. So what’s up? Well over a year ago, shortly after the Braves announced they would depart for Cobb County, Georgia State University and a private development team led by the Atlanta real estate firm Carter began pitching a $300 million proposal that calls for the conversion of “The Ted” into a football, soccer and track and field stadium. The firm also wants to develop the surrounding acreage with student housing – plus retail establishments. A first session with local residents was held in June. Things did not go well. “None of us want to live on frat row,” said one long-time resident. You might wonder how a neighborhood with an overabundance of laundromats, liquor stores and check-cashing establishments can afford to be picky. But the Summerhill community has been promised stadium rainbows since 1965, when the first Braves home was thrown up on their backs. Residents have little reason to trust developers. “It’s fair to say that the neighborhood isn’t sold on the idea,” said Carla Smith, the councilwoman who represents the area. “What the future holds, I don’t know.” The mayor said last week that he would follow the lead of Smith, who has been able to cobble together a community-based study of what might be done with the Turner Field acreage. It won’t be completed until next June. Reed said he has no doubt that a university would make a better quality-of-life neighbor for Summerhill. “I’ve got to believe for the kids in that neighborhood, it’s probably more inspirational to look onto a college campus with professors and sports and ball fields than to look onto a gaming casino,” the mayor said. But by holding out a casino alternative, the mayor was encouraging both sides to get down to the business of unicorn-free negotiations. Now, in order to work, a casino threat – no, that’s the wrong word – a casino alternativerequires credibility. It requires motive. Fortunately, Gov. Nathan Deal and the Atlanta Hawks have provided. The governor said this week he might let Georgia voters have the final word on casino gambling in a referendum. And the Hawks announced their need for a new or renovated stadium. Reed has said he’s open to some public funding to keep the basketball team in Atlanta, but where to find the cash? Well, when it comes to Turner Field, the math would tell you that a $1 billion casino deal is bigger than a $300 million GSU-based expansion. The university, by the way, has yet to produce details of how it would finance its portion of the venture, so Reed’s casino pitch might also be aimed at those who operate the levers of state government, including the Board of Regents. A gaming facility may be just as threatening to the Gold Dome crowd as to Summerhill. A casino where “The Ted” now sits would be a virtual next-door neighbor to the state Capitol. The optics would be deadly. And surely locating two houses of chance so closely together would violate local land-use restrictions.
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Good news to chopcity and his boyfriend "Fans of Cowtippers, the steak and spirit joint that is located on the strip’s northern edge...need not worry — they're not part of the auction."